Geitodoris pusae
Description
27. Geitodoris pusae (Er. Marcus, 1955) (Fig. 3L)
Material examined: Praia de Pirambúzios, Nísia Floresta, 28.II.2009, one specimen, 14 mm (body length), leg. M. Delgado (GEEFAA 338).
Description: Body flat and elliptical, with up to 60 mm in length, orange in color with small, brownish spots on the entire notum surface but irregularly distributed, and one medial, orange spot related to the visceral mass.Gills light colored with small, dark brown spots. Retractile, lamellate rhinophores dark orange on the basis and dark brown on the lamellae. Anteriorly, one pair of eyes covered by the notum, and one pair of small labia. Medially, notum with small, rounded tubercles variable in size. Posteriorly, six retractile, six-pinnated gill leaves around the anus. Foot narrower than notum.
Geographic distribution: Western Atlantic: Argentina, Costa Rica, CuraÇao, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, USA, Brazil (Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Pará, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte – present study, São Paulo) (Er. Marcus, 1955 and Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1970, as D. pusae; Domínguez et al., 2006; Padula et al., 2012; Alvim & Pimenta, 2013; Sales et al., 2013; Galvão-Filho et al., 2015).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Er. Marcus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Nudibranchia
- Family
- Discodorididae
- Genus
- Geitodoris
- Species
- pusae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Geitodoris pusae (Marcus, 1955) sec. Delgado, Freire, Meirelles, Padula, Bahia & Brandão, 2022
References
- Marcus, E. 1955. Opisthobranchia from Brazil. Boletim da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciencias e Letras, 207 (20): 89 - 261. https: // doi. org / 10.11606 / issn. 2526 - 3382. bffclzoologia. 1955.120213.
- Marcus, E. D. B. R. & Marcus, E. 1970. Opisthobranchs from Curacao and faunistically related regions. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and Other Caribbean Islands, 33: 1 - 129.
- Dominguez, M.; Garcia, F. J. & Troncoso, J. S. 2006. Some aspects of the family Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Nudibranchia) from Brazil, with description of a new species. Scientia Marina, 70 (4): 621 - 634. https: // doi. org / 10.989 / scimar. 2006.70 n 4621.
- Padula, V.; Bahia, J.; Correia, M. D. & Sovierzoski, H. H. 2012. New records of opisthobranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Alagoas, Northeastern Brazil. Marine Biodiversity Records, 5: 1 - 11. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1755267212000346.
- Alvim, J. & Pimenta, A. D. 2013. Taxonomic review of the family Discodorididae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) from Brazil, with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa, 3745 (2): 152 - 198. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3745.2.2.
- Sales, L.; Queiroz, V.; Padula, V.; Neves, E. & Johnsson, R. 2013. New records of nudibranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Bahia State, northeastern Brazil. Check List, 9 (3): 689 - 691. https: // doi. org / 10.15560 / 9.3.689.
- Galvao-Filho, H.; Araujo, A.; Silva, F.; Azevedo, V.; Meirelles, C. A. O. & Matthews-Cascon, H. 2015. Sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from a poorly known area in North-east Brazil. Filling gaps in Atlantic distributions. Marine Biodiversity Records, 8 (e 115). https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1755267215000494.